The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 71
... seems to turn a brutal god into a demented one , a creature capable of condemning human beings to an eternity of torture for sins committed in the briefest of lifetimes : a savagely dis- proportionate system of punishment repulsive to ...
... seems to turn a brutal god into a demented one , a creature capable of condemning human beings to an eternity of torture for sins committed in the briefest of lifetimes : a savagely dis- proportionate system of punishment repulsive to ...
Page 196
... seem , Confucianism and Olympian Hellenism ; though in as far as Jesus accepted the law of the Old Testament as basic for ... seems to most people the specifically religious one : the attitude of detachment from earthly life , leading to ...
... seem , Confucianism and Olympian Hellenism ; though in as far as Jesus accepted the law of the Old Testament as basic for ... seems to most people the specifically religious one : the attitude of detachment from earthly life , leading to ...
Page 217
... seem worst , as in the delirious fever that precedes a crisis , they often have a higher chance of becoming better ... seems to combine the weakest features of Spengler and Toynbee , though it tries to avoid the arrogant dogmatism of ...
... seem worst , as in the delirious fever that precedes a crisis , they often have a higher chance of becoming better ... seems to combine the weakest features of Spengler and Toynbee , though it tries to avoid the arrogant dogmatism of ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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